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Ordinance No. 16. An ordinance to preserve the peace and good order of Las Vegas, Nevada. The Board of Commissioners of the city of Las Vegas, do ordain: Any person or persons who shall engage in any fight or who shall challenge another person to fight or who shall use profane, indecent, obscene or inappropriate epithets or language in addressing any other person or persons in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, or any person who shall be guilty of any disorderly conduct in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by fine in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the City Jail of said City for any period not exceeding fifty days. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its passage and approve Upon motion of Von Tobel and seconded by McGovern it was unanimously voted by the entire Board that this ordinance be an emergency ordinance, The vote being cast as follows to-wit: Coughlin, aye, von Tobel, aye, McGovern, aye, Stewart, aye, and his honor the Mayor aye. Dated September 6th, A.D. 1911. Peter Buol. Mayor Attest:- Harley A. Harmon, Clerk. Affidavit of Publication. Chas C. Corkhill, being first duly sworn, deposes and says; That he is a citizen of the United States, over the age of eighteen years; that he is the publisher of the Clark County Review, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed and published at Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, and that the Ordinance No. l6, of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, of which the attached is a true and correct copy was published in said paper on the 9th, day of sept ember 1911. (SEAL) Chas. C. Corkhill. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th, of September A.D. 1911. Harley A. Harmon, City Clerk. Ordinance No. 17. An ordinance defining and prohibiting assault and Battery. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, do ordain: 1, An assault in an unlawful attempt coupled with the present ability to commit a violent injury to the person of another and any person convicted thereof, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. 2, Assault and battery is the unlawful beating of another person, and any person convicted thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the City Jail for any period not exceeding ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its approval and passage. Upon motion of von Tobel, and seconded by McGovern, it was unanimously voted by the entire Board that this ordinance be an emergency ordinance, the vote being cast as follows Coughlin, aye, Von Tobel, aye, McGovern, aye, Stewart, aye, his honor the Mayor Peter Buol. aye, Dated the 6th, day of September A.D. 1911. (SEAL) Attest; Harley A. Harmon. Clerk. Approved Peter Buol. Mayor. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th, day of September A.D. 1911. Harley A. Harmon, City Clerk.